In this work, we analyse and compare different liquid metal blanket designs that are based on alternative approaches to achieving heat balance, with a primary focus on understanding the MHD drag associated with these options. Specifically, we consider three concepts:
(i) Helium-cooled blanket: All heat is removed by helium flow, which is compressed and pumped at very high velocities through...
Liquid lithium is a candidate material for tritium breeding and as a coolant in fusion reactors. Vanadium is proposed as the corresponding structural material surrounding the liquid lithium, owing to their compatibility. However, tritium retention and transport in liquid lithium and across a lithium-vanadium interface is either ambiguous or unknown from literature, which prevents an accurate...
In support of the LIBRTI programme, we have developed a multi-physics simulation tool for generic breeder systems, initially focused on liquid lithium technologies. A key objective of the work is the ability to accelerate the optimisation of a breeder system design with many free parameters (related to geometry, chemical compositions or operational conditions), and in the presence of various...
